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How to use the word behaviour in a Sentence?

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The east coast of Yorkshire is known as the Dinosaur Coast for very good reasons, although these different types do not necessarily represent the same number of different dinosaurs, they do indicate a diverse ecosystem of animals including both carnivores and herbivores that roamed the Jurassic coastal plain and (river) complex some 160-175 million years ago. The prints also allow us to interpret their behaviour. Thus, we have records of walking, running and swimming dinosaurs.

Mike Romano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Faced with this unspeakable and irresponsible behaviour, the perpetrators of the shooting were identified and arrested pending the conclusions of the investigation which has already started in collaboration with the Congolese authorities.

Bintou Keita

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

We do not know whether the observed behavior involves empathy, we know that it may qualify as prosocial behaviour, meaning it may increase the welfare of another animal -- feeling better via the social attention and caring, or via substances in the saliva-insect mix that may be soothing or anti-inflammatory. There are examples of chimpanzees adopting and rescuing other chimpanzees, which may involve empathy.

Simone Pika

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You have every right to be an idiot. What you don't have the right to do is you don't have the right to harass shopkeepers, you don't have the right to scare people away from downtown and from those stores at their busiest time of year, and you don't have the right to expose your children to this. This is flagrant behaviour that puts other people at risk … we [city Council] have far better things we should be doing with our time than dealing with these people [CoVID-19 anti-mask protestors].

Naheed Nenshi

added by Greying_Geezer
2 years ago

Such a collapse is certainly a plausible scenario, given the lack of intrinsic value and consequent price volatility, the probability of contagion between cryptoassets, the cyber and operational vulnerabilities, and of course, the power of herd behaviour.

Jon Cunliffe

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Meditation teaches us to think out of box. It changes the way we react to any situation, it changes our perspective towards problem solving and it changes our thought process. These changes in everyday behaviour leads to best choices in our life. We can live our dream life with Meditation Practice.

Purvi Raniga

added by Purviraniga
2 years ago

We then tried the more sensitive MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. Because the signal was intermittent, we observed it for 15 minutes every few weeks, hoping that we would see it again, luckily, the signal returned, but we found that the behaviour of the source was dramatically different -- the source disappeared in a single day, even though it had lasted for weeks in our previous ASKAP observations.

Tara Murphy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Luckily, the signal returned, but we found that the behaviour of the source was dramatically different -- the source disappeared in a single day, even though it had lasted for weeks in our previous ASKAP observations.

Tara Murphy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you had a growth momentum of 100%, you can probably attribute something between 7% to 10 % of that to extraordinary behaviour, that is my gut feeling.

Ralf Thomas

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It is important that what girls wear is never used as an excuse for inappropriate behaviour by others.

Julie McCulloch

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

When we show selfless love and kindness to our children, they become more compassionate individuals and kindness reflects in their behaviour naturally.

Purvi Raniga

added by Purviraniga
3 years ago

The behaviour is more concealed, the use of data, algorithms, platform rules and so on make it more difficult to discover and determine what are monopoly agreements.

Ant Group

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

For illegal behaviour such as the discharge of pollution without permits, there are continuous penalties issued on a daily basis, and they will also be ordered to cut production or shut down.

Liu Zhiquan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

My message to the markets is you really should not try to read the future behaviour of the MPC from these decisions and these actions we’re taking on the toolbox.

Governor Andrew Bailey

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Nobody should take any signal from this, my message to the markets is you really should not try to read the future behaviour of the MPC from these decisions and these actions we’re taking on the toolbox.

Governor Andrew Bailey

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The pandemic is driving people’s new behaviour...We believe even after the pandemic the new normal will continue.

Yang Yuanqing

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Some of the behaviour by China on areas like forced technology transfer, subsidies by state-owned enterprises, and also IP (Intellectual Property) violations have led to some of the mistrust in the global trading system, people can see things are unfair, that if state-owned enterprises are able to subsidise and able to undermine free enterprise economies, then that can destroy trust in trade.

Liz Truss

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I don’t think it’s selfish to have children: it is not the people who are the problem, it is our behaviour.

Greta Thunberg

added by Greying_Geezer
3 years ago

Other countries, like Belgium or France, have managed to get numbers down, and the reason is people’s behaviour, how well they comply, i am sure that as more cases occur, as people see it among their acquaintances, and more people see how it is a serious illness that they don’t want to catch, one with long-term consequences, then I think compliance will improve.

Lothar Wieler

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The Australian government's behaviour ... blatantly violates the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese journalists there and caused severe harm to the physical and mental health of the journalists and their families, we ask Australia to immediately stop such blatant irrational behaviors, stop harassing and oppressing Chinese personnel in Australia under whatever pretext.

Zhao Lijian

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Good infrastructure alone is not enough to get many people to change their behaviour.

Tim Schwanen

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It does carry this perception that someone is watching you, and that does moderate people's behaviour and shifts people's thinking over time, i think that is going to be one of the long-term lessons from COVID, that it actually works.

James Leibold

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We felt there was a change in people's behaviour last year - but it will get worse again, it breaks my heart.

Carmen Lima

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Thailand was on track to slash single-use plastics by 30% this year with the bag ban, but with consumer behaviour shifting towards food delivery, we may not be able to get back on that track.

Siwat Luangsomboon

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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